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Way to Win LLC is our organizational homebase, focused on building out our community and aiding in the development of our structural team in order to achieve our organizational goals.
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Way to Rise is a charitable entity that funds power shifting campaigns and the tools necessary to support organized communities in co-governance. Way to Rise will support power building across frontline communities to ensure that every person has what they need to thrive.
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Way to Win Action Fund organizes resources to win near term elections and mobilize the electorate in a way that also builds long term power for impacted communities. It does so by focusing on state-based organizations that work year-round on transformative organizing, as well as voter engagement and governance.
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Way to Lead’s mission is to support candidates for public office who are committed to seeking justice for all communities and making our democracy more reflective and accountable. Way to Lead, which operates independently of Way to Win, supports candidates who work in partnership with movements and impacted communities, and who will fight for a visionary agenda.
We're heading into 2020 ready, eager, and prepared to win—and win big.
This cycle kicks off a new decade that requires an upending of politics as usual to protect the future of our democracy and our planet.
Way to Win has worked tirelessly to prepare for this moment. For us, 2020 started in 2016, when Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, Leah Hunt-Hendrix, and Tory Gavito fixed their resolve to correct the mistakes of the past by focusing on the leaders, strategies, and tactics we know to be the way to win.
In collaboration with local experts and on-the-ground organizations, we’ve developed The Plan to Win: a multi-state strategy designed to win the White House, fight for the Senate, and build power in Congress and state legislatures in time for redistricting.
The organizers we support are the experts. We work for them. They lead organizations that engage women, Black, Latinx, Asian, Native, young, queer, and low-income people—those most impacted by injustice and inequality, those who are the backbone of the Democratic Party, and those who account for a significant portion of the electorate who did not vote in 2016 and who absolutely can tip the scales in 2020.
Based on data and carefully analyzed electoral and demographic trends, The Plan to Win takes on 293 races up and down the ballot. And, because we know the way to win, not only are we fighting to defeat Trump, but in doing so, we are preparing for a new era in governance. By centering local movements, our investments will yield results far beyond short-term wins—laying the foundation for long-term power.
We have come together as a community on a common strategy to impact elections and alter the course of history in the past, and we can do it again. In 2017, before our official launch, our community united to back the play of local Black women in Alabama, and together we won Alabama’s senate seat. In 2018, we moved $22 million to power builders and: we won the House, electing a new squad of leaders who were pushing bold ideas and policies; we passed Amendment 4 in Florida, restoring the rights of returned citizens; we tightened win gaps in Florida, Texas, and Georgia, picking up crucial house and state legislative seats along the way; and we cemented Arizona as a new, likely blue, battleground, winning the senate seat. And in 2019, we moved over $27 million and won 50 out of 74 elections in 2020 battleground states, with big wins in Kentucky, Virgina, and Arizona acting as bellwethers that our theory is on track.
Now is the time, in 2020, to make good on the foundations we’ve laid.
We have a plan, and if we work together, the power to create the future is in our hands. We invite you to join us.
We’re in this together.
Way to Win is a constellation of funders, collaborating closely to share plans from power builders, fill funding gaps in the ecosystem, engage new donors, and throw down together in strategically important states, races, and fights for policy change at the ballot box, in state legislatures, and in city halls.
We believe the best way to defeat the politics of division is through a politics of inclusion. The best way to defeat the politics of hate is through a politics of joy. And the only way to win is to work together. That's why each year we bring our community of values-aligned funders, organizers, artists, politicians, strategists, and more together to be in relationship and align for greatest collective impact. Take a look at the video below to see a few highlights from Phoenix, where we held our last Way Forward conference in December 2019.
